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Various Artists: Jazz Around The World
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Putumayo World Music is a unique record label. It is a label of “various artists" projects, but what sets it apart from other labels that produce compilations of music is that Putumayo compilations are well off even the road less travelled. First of all, the label compiles not so much songs by artists, but music that ...
4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra: East Atlanta Passover Stomp
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Close to a century ago, Egyptologists, chief among them Cheikh Anta Diop, suggested that there was only one race: The Human Race. The Diaspora scattered from the Rift Valley and the rest, as they say, is, well, nations with severely controlled borders. Music and radio--before the advent of the record--broke some of that down, but most ...
Jacques Pellarin Trio: Sound of Philadelphia
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Sound of Philadelphia is not a novelty record--one that some critics might dismiss as world music. Jacques Pellarin's music is inflected with myriad cultural influences, so this rather empty epithet is likely to be used on the composer. This labeling is especially tough on an artist who is as seriously talented as the French/Basque musician. Pellarin ...
Andre Mehmari / Gabriele Mirabassi: Miramari
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Miramari is a musical whirlpool that bubbles with rhythmic ripples and swirls in a manner conveying a gentle disturbance that gathers in intensity at times. It is in this mysteriously liquid realm that Brazilian pianist Andre Mehmari and Italian clarinetist Gabriel Mirabassi concoct their sublime music, mixing disparate metaphors with idiomatic phrases and images. Somehow, by ...
Marcus Tardelli: Unha e Carne (Interpretations of Guinga)
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Even if Guinga never pronounced that Marcus Tardelli as “the greatest acoustic guitarist that Brazil has produced in history," the musical evidence on Unha e Carne (Fingernail and Flesh), would certainly put him on a pedestal right next to Egberto Gismonti, Sergio and Odair Assad. In fact, based on technique, expression, intonation and dynamics, there is ...
Minamo: Kuroi Kawa - Black River
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Minamo, the fiercely creative duo comprising violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist Satoko Fujii, has done it again. This time, the duo comes together on Kuroi Kawa - Black River, a magnificent two-CD presentation: the first, a studio set of eighteen short improvised studies of sublime ingenuity; the second, a live performance recorded at the 2008 Vancouver ...
Robby Ameen: Days in the Life
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Robby Ameen is one of those first call percussionists who has been chafing at the bit to produce something all his own. Now he has his chance, with Days in the Life and he acquits himself with excellence. Things might have very well gone awry, as so often happens when self producing a first record. This, ...
Joe Morris: Colorfield
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Much dirt has been spread about concrete art because it lacks heart and is almost always cold by its very nature. In music as in painting, the anomaly of art without a living soul can echo with emptiness. However there is Confucius, who praised the exactitude of concrete nomenclature, eschewing the figurative. In the case of ...
The OtherTet: The OtherTet
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The seemingly innocuously titled The OtherTet is far from an exercise in making-music in a modern idiom. A generation ago, speculation would be rife about minimalism and atonalism, terms that are laughable in today's context of existential angst. Therefore, when contemporary musical compositions delve into the macabre and the irony of contemporary existence a new idiom ...
Charles Tyler: Charles Tyler Ensemble
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Charles Tyler Ensemble possesses a profound quality. Unlike many records of the mid-1960s, it burns with a quiet blue flame, eschewing the intellectual posturing that characterized much new music in the avant-garde era. Tyler, a baritone saxophonist who became an acolyte of Albert Ayler--following him to New York in the early part of the movement--transposes Ayler's ...
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